The guys at the gym and I were talking about the Iowa state Board of Regents and its inept search for a new University of Iowa president. We got a good laugh out of the fact that board president Michael Gartner's qualifications for the perfect candidate -- scholar, fundraiser, experience with a large teaching hospital -- all call to mind only one candidate: former UI President David Skorton. What an irony -- the regents drive the most promising president since Sandy Boyd out of state and then turn around and say they want to hire his clone.
In good times if you ask an Iowa Citian who the regents are they will answer without missing a beat, "Isn't that the name of the athletic teams from Regina High School?" But now most Iowa City residents, Iowans for that matter, not only know who the regents are, they also have a nice comfy two by four that they'd like to give Gartner and his sidekick teresa wahlert (who doesn't use capitals in her mass e-mails to the university) a ride on to the Iowa border.
Ouch!
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